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Andy Price

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, if that’s all right. I feel like the dust hasn’t settled”: The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs

Radiohead Daydreaming.

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Instantly hailed as a Radiohead classic from the moment of its release, the melancholy beauty of Daydreaming was inarguably one of the high watermarks of Radiohead’s entire songbook. As with much of its parent album, Daydreaming's crushing sadness was channelled from very real – and very painful – events in the lives of its makers.

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